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• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 16 March 2011

I am interested in the cost of running the sports venues once they are into legacy mode. I understand that the OPLC will be responsible for the Stadium, the Aquatics Centre, the mixed sports venue and the tower. Do you expect the sports venues will require public subsidy once they are in legacy mode to keep them afloat, or will they stand on their own two feet?

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Realistically, would you hope to get extra money from national government or from the Mayor, or from both?

• Question by: Gareth Bacon MP
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

Like Dee I have some concerns about the athletics' commitment in the Stadium and I think one of the major stumbling blocks to making that Stadium have a viable legacy is the insistence on retaining the running track round it. I am not saying anything new in terms of saying the football clubs do not like playing in stadiums where there are athletics tracks round the pitch and the reasons for that are all very well documented. How many times is it anticipated that the Stadium would be used for athletics events, if the athletics track is retained - in...

• Question by: Richard Tracey
• Meeting date: 10 March 2010

I do not want to take up too much time on this, but can I just ask you have you looked at the way that the Manchester Stadium was dealt with where Manchester got the contract for the Commonwealth Games, then they did a deal with Manchester City and then the designing of the stadium took all this in mind before the Commonwealth Games? It seems, to me, a route to look at.